Comment by embedding-shape
3 hours ago
I've started doing:
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -
And never been happier. I hope it still counts as a view for the channel/owner though, but never investigated if that's actually the case.
In most builds mpv has yt-dlp integrated, you can directly pass the URL to it.
Ay, but then I don't get to teach beginners about the unix principle and how easy it is to pipe stuff between different tools :)
Thanks for the heads up regardless, I'm sure there was others who didn't know, who learned something new! :)
Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
Good thing yt-dlp is a browser.
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
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